Sukhoi Company (JSC)
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Formerly called
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OKB-51 |
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| Industry | Aerospace and defense |
| Founded | as OKB-51, 1939 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Pavel Sukhoi, founder |
| Products | Military aircraft Civil airliners |
| Revenue |
 ₽47.8 billion (2011)
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₽7 billion (2011)
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₽5.2 billion (2011)
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Number of employees
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26,177 (2011) |
| Parent | United Aircraft Corporation |
| Website | www |
Sukhoi Company (JSC; Russian: ПАО «Компания „Сухой“») is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, and designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su). The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.
The Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB Sukhoi) was an independent engineering and design department created by Pavel Sukhoi, a Soviet Russian aerospace engineer in September 1939. The bureau was located in Kharkiv, Ukraine however, and Sukhoi was not satisfied with its location as it is itself isolated from the scientific pole of Moscow. Sukhoi then relocated the bureau to the aerodrome of Podmoskovye in the city of Moscow, finishing relocation halfway by 1940. Sukhoi encountered another issue: the bureau has no production line, thus making the bureau useless as Sukhoi had nothing to do. He had developed a new ground-attack plane, the Su-6, but Stalin decided that this plane should not be put into production, favouring production of the Ilyushin Il-2.
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